Research Interest

1. AI & ML

2. AI Safety

3. Media Forensics

4. Computer Vision

Education

•  Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea

Ph.D degree expected in Department of Artificial Intelligence, Mar. 2024 - Present

• • • • adviser: Prof. Jongwon Choi

      • Area of Study: AI safety

M.S., degree in Department of Image Science and arts, Mar.2022 - Feb. 2024

• • • • Thesis Title: Exploiting Style Latent Flows for Generalizing Video Deepfake Detection

      • adviser: Prof. Jongwon Choi

      • Area of Study: Improve the performance of video based deepfake detection algorithm using temporal artifact

• Kyonggi University, Suwon, Korea

B.Ec., degree in  Department of Economic, Mar. 2016 - Feb. 2021

• Major: Applied Staticstics

B.Sc., degree in Department of Science in Engineering, Mar. 2016 - Feb. 2021

• Major: Data Convergence Engineering

Publications

• International

• • Beyond Spatial Frequency: Pixel-wise Temporal Frequency-based Deepfake Video Detection, ICCV 2025 [paper] [arxiv] [code]

Taehoon Kim, Jongwook Choi,Yonghyun Jeong, Haeun Noh, Jaejun Yoo, Seungryul Baek and Jongwon Choi*

• • Facemover: Unsupervised face frontalization with embedding segments,  AVSS 2025 [paper]

Jongmin Lee, Jaeyoon Lee, Hyoungjun Lim, Jongwook Choi and Jongwon Choi*

• ID-Flow: Leveraging Voice Identity for Generalizing Audio Deepfake Detection, ICCE 2025 [paper]

Jongwook Choi, Taehoon Kim,  and Jongwon Choi*

• • Exploiting Style Latent Flows for Generalizing Video Deepfake Detection, CVPR 2024 [paper] [arxiv] [code]

 Jongwook Choi, Taehoon Kim, Yonghyun Jeong, Seungryul Baek and Jongwon Choi*

• • Domain Generalization for Face Forgery Detection by Style Transfer, ICCE 2024 [paper]

Taehoon Kim, Jongwook Choi, Hyunjin Cho, Hyoungjun Lim and Jongwon Choi*

Experience

• UoB, Birmingham, UK

     Visiting Researcher (Prof. Hyung Jin Chang), School of Computer Science, Sep. 2025 - Nov. 2025

• TrueMedia, Seatle, USA 

     Remote-Internship (Model developer), ML video team, Oct. 2024 - Dec. 2024 

• NCSOFT, Seongnam, Korea 

     Internship (AI researcher), Graphics AI Lab, Virtual Face team, Sep. 2023 - Feb. 2024 

Research Projects

Served as the Team Leader

Jan. 2026 - Present

• EUV 마스크 제조 공정 초고해상화 생성형 AI 모델 개발 [한국전자통신연구원] 

EUV mask manufacturing process ultra-high-resolution generative AI model development  [ETRI]

Mar. 2024 - Dec. 2025

• 저조도 조명환경 극복을 위한 다중 투사 공간 활용 고자유도 대규모 사용자 상호작용 기술 개발 [문체부] 

High-Freedom Multi-Projection Interaction Technology for Low-Light Environments [MCST]

Mar. 2022 - Mar. 2023

•  실제와 지각 역치 이하 수준까지 동일한 특성을 갖는 인물 영상 합성 기술 및 판별 기술 개발 [정보통신기획평가원] 

Development of Realistic Person Image Synthesis and Discrimination Technology Below Perceptual Thresholds [IITP]

Served as the Team Member

Jun. 2023 - Dec. 2023

• 부정 불량 식품의 스마트 감시 시스템 및 판별 기술 고도화 [식약처] 

Advanced Smart Monitoring and Discrimination Technology for Counterfeit Food [KFDA] 

Patents

Registration

• [KR] 10-2685693. 딥페이크 비디오 탐지 방법 및 장치, 컴퓨터 프로그램 (July. 2024)

Methods and Devices for Deepfake Video Detection, Computer Programs

• [KR] 10-2724394. 키워드 추출을 통한 기사 분석 방법 및 장치, 컴퓨터 프로그램 (Oct. 2024)

Method and Device for Article Analysis Through Keyword Extraction, and Computer Program 

Application

•  [KR] 10-2024-0162354. 딥페이크 영상 검출 장치 및 방법 (Nov. 2024)

Deepfake Video Detection Device and Method

Honors & Awards 

• 우수상 수상 ( 2/141 ), 통계청 제1회 통계빅데이터 분석 활용 대회, 2019 

Excellence Award ( 2/141 ) 1st Statistics Big Data Analysis and Utilization Competition by Statistics Korea , 2019

Peer-review Activity 

• IEEE/CVF Conference On Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)

• IEEE/CVF Conference On Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026)

• European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026)

• British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2026)

• Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026)